The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

一个时代的自由思想在下一个时代就成了常识。

But this was a sign of mass voting from Turkey, not of a freethinking boom.

然而这只是说明了土耳其的民众投票的积极度，而非自由思想的繁荣。

This is an example of two cultures with different attitudes towards creativity and freethinking.

这是对创造力和自由思维态度的两种不同文化的例子。

This being so, what needs to be done by those nations where there is a serious deficit of creativity and freethinking?

如此说来，严重缺乏创造力和自由思维的民族需要做什么呢？

This has involved giving a bit of leeway to freethinking individuals, but occasionally punishing those seen as straying too far.

这个包括了给自由思想者一些余地，然而偶尔对这些人的惩罚显示这些人走得太远了。